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16 December 2006

Please Don't Ask for Sugar Cookies

Somewhere along the way I missed the sugar cookie class. I can't make the silly things.

This wouldn't be a problem, since others make really good ones and share them with us, but my children seem to think they would be fun to make when people give us cute little cookies that look perfect. So we try. And it always ends up with me cross in the kitchen and a pathetic little collection of the sorriest-looking sugar cookies you've ever seen. And the boys are hiding downstairs.

Can't we just have snickerdoodles?

(And please don't give me tips or new recipes. I don't want to ever even imagine again that I should try making them.)

10 comments:

That is too funny! I'm a pastry chef by occasional trade and I hate to make sugar cookies! I can make great tasting sugar coated cookies, but I cannot make those cute little shaped and iced cookies... I obsess over getting the edges just right and the icing just right and everything... just...right... so I don't make them.

I don't even like Jello. My sugar cookies are ugly, but they taste pretty good!! I was never a good Molly Mormon either. Can't even sew!!

The website will take some time. We are using Russian-Uzbek texts so I have to spend time translating them into English. Also my husband has some Uzbek movies which he will try to post online. I'll let you know!!

Give me chocolate chip cookies any day. I make the sugar cookies -- and acutally enjoy doing it (!) -- but I have to admit it's more for the memories for the kids than because I enjoy eating them. In my opinion, they're just a vehicle for frosting. Which, I suppose, is a worthy thing. But, then, I could just eat the frosting and be happy.